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		pessimizer on Oct 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API Pretty sure that's how facebook was actually built.

quickthrower2 on Oct 22, 2020 | [–]

Well that’s how it was started, which is a bit different. More code had been written since then.

wrkronmiller on Oct 23, 2020 | [–]

Even if that was part of their origin story, it's a bit like saying a skyscraper was built by the person who broke ground at the site.

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